Anobius Pertinax
(Book Worm)
"After much occasion to consider the folly and mischiefs of a state of warfare and the little or no advantage obtained even by those nations who have conducted it with the most success, I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace."
-Benjamin Franklin
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."
- Benjamin Franklin
"When man and woman die, as poets sung/His heart's the last part moves, her last the tongue."
- "Poor Richard"
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain
"If you hide ignorance you can never learn."
Farenheit 451
"[Real courage] is when you know you're licked before you begin buy you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
To Kill A Mockingbird
"Books are...funny little portable pieces of thought."
- Susan Sontag
"Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place."
The Poisonwood Bible
"There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you."
Ender's Game
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"'It's [The Book of Genesis] a poetic version. It says about the same thing I've been saying, except that it's word 'day' is best understood to mean 'a vast gelogic era.''
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The real question in this debate had been posed by his father: 'If I concede, Stanley, that the universe did begin with your big bang eighteen years ago, tell me what set that bang in motion?'
'Science has no answer to that.'
'Was it not God?'
'I think so. Or some force mysteriously like God.'
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'Fair deal,' the elderly minister said, 'I'll give you your billions of years if you'll give me my God.'"
Space
"The knowledge of nature may be ornamental, and it may be useful, but if to attain an eminence in that, we neglect the knowledge and practice of essential duties, we deserve reprehension. For there is no rank in natural knowledge of equal dignity and importance with that of being a good parent, a good child, a good husband, or wife, a good neighbor or friend, a good subject or citizen, that is, in short, a good Christian."
-Benjamin Franklin
"He [the turkey] is, though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that, a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his farm yard with a red coat on."
-Benjamin Franklin
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